1. Cecil Rhodes a promoter . He made a few people rich. He killed a great many natives.

2. Cecil Rhodes, who arrived in South Africa in 1873, founds the DeBeers Mining Company with other investors.

3. To be born an Englishman,” Cecil Rhodes supposedly said, “is to win first prize in the lottery of life.

4. In 1902 , as he lay dying at the age of 48, Cecil Rhodes could look back on a not undistinguished career.

5. A few years later he won control of De Beers, a diamond miner that had been founded in 1880 by Cecil Rhodes, a British-born colonialist.

6. It's the former Rhodesia that British-born South African businessman, politician and De Beers chief Cecil Rhodes founded shortly after Britain invaded in 1893 and conquered Matabeleland.